Long-listed for the Booker Prize. Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Pctersburg to find his mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral without contacting their father, Nicholas, a brilliant and manipulative libertine. Unknown to the twins, their mother had long ago abandoned a son, Arkady, a pitiless Russian predator now determined to claim his birthright. 395p.

Jasper Jackson is a serial heartbreaker greatly overdue for a reckoning. He is also a charming, sophisticatged young Londoner, well versed in the finer things in life, who manages to eke out his stylish modern existence with an unusualcareer in calligraphy. While working on a commission to transcribe the love poetry of John Donne, he glimpses an alluring woman in the courtyard outside his window. Madeleine is in every way his match - sexy, intelligent, and, above all, elusive. But his mission to seduce her marks the start of his unraveling. 360p.